What is the difference between anthropology and sociology?

What is the difference between sociology and social anthropology?

• i wrote an essay on sociology n later i found out that my education system doesnt offer sociology...so now i have to turn my essay into social anthropology...is that possible??...are both of them the same?? or almost the same?

• Answer:

  I think Social Anthropology is under the umbrella of Sociology. Sociology, the scientific study of human social relations or group life. The first definition of sociology was advanced by the French philosopher Auguste Comte. In 1838 Comte coined the term sociology to describe his vision of a new science that would discover laws of human society resembling the laws of nature by applying the methods of factual investigation that had proved so successful in the physical sciences. Anthropology, the study of all aspects of human life and culture. Anthropology examines such topics as how people live, what they think, what they produce, and how they interact with their environments. Anthropologists try to understand the full range of human diversity as well as what all people share in common. Anthropologists ask such basic questions as: When, where, and how did humans evolve? How do people adapt to different environments? How have societies developed and changed from the ancient past to the present? Answers to these questions can help us understand what it means to be human. They can also help us to learn ways to meet the present-day needs of people all over the world and to plan how we might live in the future.